2000 Rupees Bhanu Bhakta Acharya

Bhanu Bhakta Acharya, celebrated as the first poet to translate the Ramayana into Nepali vernacular, spent years of his later life in poverty and near-obscurity before Motiram Bhatta's 1891 biographical essay resurrected his reputation posthumously. The silver commemorative issued on his birth anniversary reflects Nepal's long tradition of elevating literary figures through numismatic patronage — a practice the Rastra Bank has used consistently since the Shah-era commemoratives of the 1970s.